Shaun Gladwell
Collection +
SCAF Project 25
Cnr Oxford St & Greens Rd, Paddington NSW 2021, Sydney, Australia
6th of March 2015 - 25 of April 2015
Open: Tue - Sat: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Curator: Dr. Barbora Polia and Prof. Paul Ardenne
Admission: free
One of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists, Shaun Gladwell (b.1972), will return to Sydney in
March for a major project incorporating two exhibitions presented by Sherman Contemporary Art
Foundation (SCAF) in association with UNSW Galleries.
A project across two sites, a major new commission The Lacrima Chair will be exhibited at SCAF, while at
UNSW Galleries, Collection+: Shaun Gladwell will feature over 20 works spanning the artist’s career and
practice.
r Gene Sherman, Executive Director of SCAF said The Foundation’s first project for 2015 would bring
Shaun Gladwell - who represented Australia at the 53rd Venice Biennale - back to his roots to the spaces
where he started his career in Sydney over 15 years ago.
‘In every sense, he is coming home - to UNSW Art & Design, previously COFA, where he completed his
Master of Fine Arts; and to Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, where he was represented for 9 years
by SCAF’s previous incarnation, Sherman Galleries (1986-2007)’, Dr Sherman said.
The Lacrima Chair (SCAF Project 24) will feature a site-specific and visually compelling, immersive
installation by Gladwell comprising sculpture and video.
The installation will engage the poetics of flight, travel and cultural transmission, specifically French cultural influences within Australia and vice versa. Gallery visitors will need to move through mist screens and may elect to sit, Francis Bacon style, in costume under a shower of water in order to fully experience Gladwell’s new installation. The Lacrima Chair is both metaphor and reality. Curated by Dr Barbara Polla (Geneva-based) and Prof. Paul Ardenne (Paris-based), Collection+: Shaun Gladwell (SCAF Project 25) will be presented in association with, and across all three exhibition spaces of the recently launched UNSW Galleries at the Art and Design faculty in Paddington, Sydney. Focusing on Gladwell’s interest in ornithology, wider thinking on flight, notions of the ‘double’ and problems with representing conflict, the exhibition includes the paintings Helmet apparition (Taliban hillfighter), 2011-12 and Helmet apparition (major league infidel), 2011-12, resulting from his time in Afghanistan as one of Australia’s official war artists, the video piece Double Linework, 2000 from the beginning of his career, and The Flying Dutchman in Blue, 2013 – an example of his most recent multi-channel installations – which served as the backdrop to the Rotterdam Philharmonic’s production of this Wagnerian masterpiece.
In Collection+: Shaun Gladwell, Polla and Ardenne have selected works by Gladwell from The Gene & Brian Sherman Collection alongside other significant pieces from private and public collections both in Australia and internationally to provide an insight into the artist in mid-career. Felicity Fenner, Director of UNSW Galleries, said: ‘This project incorporates the first solo exhibition to be staged at the new galleries. In many senses, it is a homecoming that celebrates the multidisciplinary work of a significant contemporary international artist at the place where his remarkable career began – UNSW.’ Gladwell’s work is widely represented in national, major public and private collections worldwide such as the The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; The Orange County Museum of Art, California; The Wadsworth Atheneum, Connecticut; and The Museum of Art, Tokyo. In 2011, Gladwell had major survey exhibitions at SCHUNCK* museum in Heerlen, The Netherlands, and at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut, USA.
The installation will engage the poetics of flight, travel and cultural transmission, specifically French cultural influences within Australia and vice versa. Gallery visitors will need to move through mist screens and may elect to sit, Francis Bacon style, in costume under a shower of water in order to fully experience Gladwell’s new installation. The Lacrima Chair is both metaphor and reality. Curated by Dr Barbara Polla (Geneva-based) and Prof. Paul Ardenne (Paris-based), Collection+: Shaun Gladwell (SCAF Project 25) will be presented in association with, and across all three exhibition spaces of the recently launched UNSW Galleries at the Art and Design faculty in Paddington, Sydney. Focusing on Gladwell’s interest in ornithology, wider thinking on flight, notions of the ‘double’ and problems with representing conflict, the exhibition includes the paintings Helmet apparition (Taliban hillfighter), 2011-12 and Helmet apparition (major league infidel), 2011-12, resulting from his time in Afghanistan as one of Australia’s official war artists, the video piece Double Linework, 2000 from the beginning of his career, and The Flying Dutchman in Blue, 2013 – an example of his most recent multi-channel installations – which served as the backdrop to the Rotterdam Philharmonic’s production of this Wagnerian masterpiece.
In Collection+: Shaun Gladwell, Polla and Ardenne have selected works by Gladwell from The Gene & Brian Sherman Collection alongside other significant pieces from private and public collections both in Australia and internationally to provide an insight into the artist in mid-career. Felicity Fenner, Director of UNSW Galleries, said: ‘This project incorporates the first solo exhibition to be staged at the new galleries. In many senses, it is a homecoming that celebrates the multidisciplinary work of a significant contemporary international artist at the place where his remarkable career began – UNSW.’ Gladwell’s work is widely represented in national, major public and private collections worldwide such as the The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; The Orange County Museum of Art, California; The Wadsworth Atheneum, Connecticut; and The Museum of Art, Tokyo. In 2011, Gladwell had major survey exhibitions at SCHUNCK* museum in Heerlen, The Netherlands, and at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut, USA.
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